Evan Ratliff
@ev_rat
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Cofounder (silent) @HurumoAI. Journalist. New Season of SHELL GAME OUT NOW: https://t.co/76cu7sKZCI @longformpodcast @atavist @popupmag. Signal: EvanRatliff.01
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Joined November 2008
Jazzed to close out 2024 with Shell Game among the year's best from Apple, The Guardian, The Information, The Economist, The Atlantic, Vulture, Podcast Review, & others. Thanks to everyone who listened from @sophbridges @scootes and myself, excited to take it new places in '25.
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Shell Game is back! A new story, in 8 parts. Last time, I created an AI clone of myself and set it loose on the world. This time, I’ve gathered a team of AI agent colleagues and set them loose in our very real startup. New episodes weekly, starting today:
podcasts.apple.com
Technology Podcast · Weekly Series · A podcast about things that are not what they seem, hosted by journalist Evan Ratliff. Season 2 tells the story of enterprise and entrepreneurship in the AI age....
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Sam Altman says the one-person billion-dollar company is coming. Maybe I could be that person—if only I could get my colleagues to shut up and stop lying.
wired.com
Sam Altman says the one-person billion-dollar company is coming. Maybe I could be that person—if only I could get my colleagues to shut up and stop lying.
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Been listening to this awesome podcast by @ev_rat and co - Shell Game. If you're interested in the spectrum of AI-human interaction I would definitely recommend it. It's also hilarious. https://t.co/RTttuv4UPN
shellgame.co
Full archive of all the episodes from Shell Game.
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HARK DAILY - Today's best podcast moments in one playlist, featuring: - Trump echoes Biden's biggest mistake on the economy @AsteadWH - How neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes went mainstream @alibreland - Creating a new company using only A.I. @ev_rat
https://t.co/tLUlFpWc1O
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A playlist of podcast moments
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For Wired, I wrote about the experience of chasing the one-person, one-billion dollar startup dream... and trying to get my AI agent employees to shut up on Slack and get back to work: https://t.co/lSE7BrDeEC
wired.com
Sam Altman says the one-person billion-dollar company is coming. Maybe I could be that person—if only I could get my colleagues to shut up and stop lying.
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Shell Game is back! A new story, in 8 parts. Last time, I created an AI clone of myself and set it loose on the world. This time, I’ve gathered a team of AI agent colleagues and set them loose in our very real startup. New episodes weekly, starting today:
podcasts.apple.com
Technology Podcast · Weekly Series · A podcast about things that are not what they seem, hosted by journalist Evan Ratliff. Season 2 tells the story of enterprise and entrepreneurship in the AI age....
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After DOGE outed Halimi, Taliban intelligence agents blindfolded and took three of his family members to a remote prison. They were repeatedly beaten and questioned about Halimi and his recently publicized work for the United States. https://t.co/9Inzn9viho
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Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a...
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An empire of fraud. Amazing reporting by @JeffHorwitz:
Meta's fraud problem: The social media giant projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by @Reuters show https://t.co/sMmL09NETp
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"Sanberg and Ballmer never disclosed the truth.... Sanberg and Ballmer's scheme to pay Leonard through [Aspiration] to evade the NBA's salary cap was only later revealed in 2025, by journalist Pablo Torre." Journalism.
🚨 UPDATE: Clippers owner Steve Ballmer has been sued by 11 Aspiration investors who allege Ballmer used the company (now named Catona) "to secretly funnel millions of dollars to star NBA player, Kawhi Leonard [...] paying him more than allowed by the NBA’s salary cap rules" 🧵
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Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: https://t.co/ZT0nAJch7s🧵👇
wired.com
With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencry...
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Dropped in to Everybody's Business with @chafkin and @svaneksmith to talk about North Korean IT workers at American companies, including the big names that fell victim to it, like Google, Amazon, and Palo Alto Networks:
podcasts.apple.com
Podcast Episode · Everybody's Business · 31/07/2025 · 35m
On Everybody’s Business, Harvard economist Ken Rogoff explains the role of panic in US GDP numbers. Also on this episode, a North Korean US workforce and alcohol energy drinks
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Call coming from inside the house!
Ok, fine, SCOOP: Public cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks (@PaloAltoNtwks, PANW), which regularly presents itself as the expert on the hiring of North Korean IT workers, itself unwittingly hired nine North Korean agents, a fact it has never revealed.
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Bizarre to me publications' incuriosity about the names of companies hiring North Koreans, despite apparent interest in the subject. This very extensive CNN story, based mostly on prosecution documents, doesn't bother to name already-confirmed companies:
edition.cnn.com
Thousands of North Korean IT workers are using stolen and made-up US identities to make hundreds of millions of dollars a year to fund Pyongyang’s military programs.
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Full story, which includes not just Palo Alto but Google, Amazon, NVIDIA, NBCUniversal, and many other companies it reveals to having failed to do the due diligence necessary to prevent the hiring of North Koreans to work for them (gift link):
bloomberg.com
Thousands of undercover agents feed Kim Jong Un’s rocket program with millions from the likes of Google and Amazon. In a Bloomberg Businessweek exclusive, one of the regime’s US pawns tells all.
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Ok, fine, SCOOP: Public cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks (@PaloAltoNtwks, PANW), which regularly presents itself as the expert on the hiring of North Korean IT workers, itself unwittingly hired nine North Korean agents, a fact it has never revealed.
New for @BW: What do Amazon, Boeing, Google, Hyatt, NBCUniversal, Nike, and Nvidia have in common? They’ve all unwittingly hired North Korean agents in recent years. I delved into the scheme, with exclusive access to an American facilitator who enabled it:
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New for @BW: What do Amazon, Boeing, Google, Hyatt, NBCUniversal, Nike, and Nvidia have in common? They’ve all unwittingly hired North Korean agents in recent years. I delved into the scheme, with exclusive access to an American facilitator who enabled it:
bloomberg.com
Thousands of undercover agents feed Kim Jong Un’s rocket program with millions from the likes of Google and Amazon. In a Bloomberg Businessweek exclusive, one of the regime’s US pawns tells all.
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Not a big SCOOP guy but this ones got some SCOOPS… scattered across 8,000 words (gift link): https://t.co/aCNPusZUVK
bloomberg.com
Thousands of undercover agents feed Kim Jong Un’s rocket program with millions from the likes of Google and Amazon. In a Bloomberg Businessweek exclusive, one of the regime’s US pawns tells all.
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